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Renaissance Reading Brown Bag Book Club
Please join us for an interdisciplinary, informal, enjoyable reading group for graduate students and professors in the College of Liberal Arts specializing in or taking courses in early/modern Renaissance, select Wednesdays, 12:30-1:20. BYOBB (Bring Your Own Brown-Bagged Lunch) and join us for good conversation and good company. For more information, please email Angelica Duran, MARS Assistant Director - Renaissance at duran0@purdue.edu.
Fall 2009
The MARS reading group will be meeting from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in BRNG 1284.
The group will meet on select Wednesdays:
September 9
September 23
October 7
October 21
November 4
November 18
The group will lead by Dr. Oliveira and will be discussing The Lusiads for the first three meetings. Professor Oliveira will recommend an edition in Portuguese for those who would like to read it in the original.
For the second half of the semester, the group will be reading Hans Staden's True History, a 16th century traveller's tale.
For more information, please contact Lynne J. Miles-Morillo at mimo@purdue.edu.